“The age bracket the city thrives on (Generation Y), is inherently unsafe for its female inhabitants. As a twenty-three year old woman, I can’t walk to work without expecting street harassment. I can’t go to a bar without the fear of a fifty year old man sitting next to me and chanting demeaning and derogatory terms.

In Newport, it’s okay for the drunk sailor-bros to treat women like blow up dolls.

I hate to be the one to let you in on this, but gender relations come down to whatever each party is willing to put up with. Men will behave as badly as they can get away with. We’d be living in cardboard boxes if we thought we could bring girls home to them.

If either of these two columns are at all indicative of how men in Newport act, then indeed the city-by-the-Sea has a serious issue indeed.

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It’s an unfortunate fact that when a women documents her lived experience of sexism, people (both men and women) seem to circle the wagons and deny it. Maybe they are defending Newport, or the tourism industry, or are uncomfortable admitting that experiences like Dash’s occur. This automatic defensiveness makes people look awfully foolish (Newport Buzz Director Tristan Pinnock for example) and does nothing to further the conversation.